Google says the internet is bad for you.

Google says the internet is bad for you.

iPhone and iPod Touch currency tool

Adding currency conversion to your iPod touch or iPhone

How to download YouTube videos

Sorry for linux only…
http://ubuntudoitall.blogspot.com/2008/08/download-youtube-videos-and-convert.html

extracting specific information from a string in PHP

I have a bunch of entries in a database where one field (varchar) is of this format
First name Last Name (AccountId-ItemId)
For example
“John Smith (1342-314)”
I needed to extract the Account and Item id’s from this.
if (preg_match(‘/\\([0-9]{1,4}-[0-9]{1,4}\\)/’, $source_data, $regs)) {
$match = $regs[0];
[...]

Wamp Server error mysqld got exception 0xc0000005

What causes Wamp Server to error with mysqld got exception 0xc0000005?

Rebuilding your iTunes Library

My data harddrive was full so I added a new hard drive. Unfortunately the iTunes library wouldn’t show up.
Everytime I tried to reset the path it kept coming back with a blank library. I found out how to choose a different iTunes Library file
It’s simply a case of holding down the Shift key [...]

VirtualBox on Ubuntu 8.10 libqt4 problem

I am moving away from one of my clients, this is always sad in some respects but being the eternal optimist I look on the bright side. This client is one of the few who has a custom made windows application that will not run under linux. In preparation for this event [...]

Using Amazon S3 as a network Drive

I personally have never trusted storage on the net vendors for a variety of reasons. Confidentiality and would they still be in business in a year were the two most obvious ones. But Amazon S3 is a different matter.
They are not going to go out of business any time soon. However the [...]

Keeping email logs for a year part 2

Ok, we are only two months away now from having to keep all email logs for a year. Having thought about this some more it going to not only prove to be expensive for ISP’s it is going to slow down investigations, and inevitably prove totally pointless.
Pointless?
If I were a terrorist would I use a [...]

Give politicians longer holidays please

My 5 ways to improve politics in this country

Nice simple one this. Give them more holidays so they spend less time in parliament screwing the country up
For every Law that is made 2 must be repealed for the next 10 years
For major issues, for example the Heathrow runway and ID cards there [...]